At last, the Left is listening on national service
Andrew West
January 6, 2006 11:34 AM
The president of NSW Young Labor, Sam Dastyari, has joined the call to reintroduce some form of national service, not necessarily military. Finally, the Left is getting over its reflexive libertarianism and rediscovering the notion of community.
Two years ago, I made a speech in the NSW town of Cowra, as part of the Australia Day ambassador's program, on the need to introduce one year of compulsory community service (not military) for all Australians, sometime between their 18th and 25th birthdays.
Personally I think military service is mostly about the desires of politician types (like Andrew West who is generally a goose) to have persons who will risk their life to obey what they say, but on the other hand I think there are far too many kids ruining their lives through a complete lack of discipline.
I'm fairly certain military service would have helped me, and I can see similar problems in todays youth so I for one would vote for it. One of the most major problems about technology, apart from the destruction of the environment, is the weakness of mind that it causes. We are still a most internationally competitive world, and males have lost ALL opportunities to be masculine, so I think the harm in terms of the required military conformity are lesser than the potential benefits for masculinity.
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- Kevin Solway
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It's a real worry the way things are going. With all the talk of new "anti-terrorism" laws, forced "national service", etc, it look like freedom is being slowly legislated out of existence.
Already people are studying and working longer hours than they have for many decades. Many people are working two, three, or four jobs. Full-time students are working jobs as well, including High-school age students.
People have very little free time, and time to think, as it is. But even this they want to legislate out of existence. And if they are going to give up their own freedom, then they don't want others to have it either. Therefore they will try to use their numbers to force everyone to conform.
Already, in Australia, there is "work for unemployment benefits" - which is a contradiction in terms. And they want to get disabled people and old aged pensioners working as well. They want single mothers to put their children into child care while they work, even though it might cost more for child care than they can earn.
Already people are studying and working longer hours than they have for many decades. Many people are working two, three, or four jobs. Full-time students are working jobs as well, including High-school age students.
People have very little free time, and time to think, as it is. But even this they want to legislate out of existence. And if they are going to give up their own freedom, then they don't want others to have it either. Therefore they will try to use their numbers to force everyone to conform.
Already, in Australia, there is "work for unemployment benefits" - which is a contradiction in terms. And they want to get disabled people and old aged pensioners working as well. They want single mothers to put their children into child care while they work, even though it might cost more for child care than they can earn.
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They don't want to wake up and have to think about what they will do that day, or whether they should partner with this person or that. To think much on such topics would only lead to more confusion and misery, surely. They simply want events to stream through, and then be over and done with.
They'll score their innings, endure life, but then they want to rest-in-peace. Even better, the more they work and have their life mapped out for them, the less they ever really enter into life. If they can minimise rising from the dead, then it's ever so little loss to die! It's very much a win-win.
I don't know what you're complaining about Solway, you just can't get it can you?
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People don't want freedom and free time, it gives them opportunity to think.ksolway wrote:It's a real worry the way things are going. With all the talk of new "anti-terrorism" laws, forced "national service", etc, it look like freedom is being slowly legislated out of existence.
Already people are studying and working longer hours than they have for many decades. Many people are working two, three, or four jobs. Full-time students are working jobs as well, including High-school age students.
People have very little free time, and time to think, as it is. But even this they want to legislate out of existence. And if they are going to give up their own freedom, then they don't want others to have it either. Therefore they will try to use their numbers to force everyone to conform.
Already, in Australia, there is "work for unemployment benefits" - which is a contradiction in terms. And they want to get disabled people and old aged pensioners working as well. They want single mothers to put their children into child care while they work, even though it might cost more for child care than they can earn.
They don't want to wake up and have to think about what they will do that day, or whether they should partner with this person or that. To think much on such topics would only lead to more confusion and misery, surely. They simply want events to stream through, and then be over and done with.
They'll score their innings, endure life, but then they want to rest-in-peace. Even better, the more they work and have their life mapped out for them, the less they ever really enter into life. If they can minimise rising from the dead, then it's ever so little loss to die! It's very much a win-win.
I don't know what you're complaining about Solway, you just can't get it can you?
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